Unlocking Potential : Identifying and Serving Gifted Students From Low-Income Households

This edited book, written by authors with extensive experience in working with gifted students from low-income households, focuses on ways to translate the latest research and theory into evidence-supported practices that impact how schools identify and serve these students.

Winner of NAGC''s 2021 Book of the Year Award

This edited book, written by authors with extensive experience in working with gifted students from low-income households, focuses on ways to translate the latest research and theory into evidence-supported practices that impact how schools identify and serve these students. Readers will:

• Learn about evidence-supported identification systems, tools, and strategies for finding students from low-income households.
• Discover curriculum models, resources, and instructional strategies found effective from projects focused on supporting these students.
• Understand the important role that intra- and interpersonal skills, ethnicity/race, families, school systems, and communities play.
• Consider the perceptions of gifted students who grew up in low-income households.
• Learn how educators can use their experiences to strengthen current services.

Unlocking Potential is the go-to resource for an up-to-date overview of best practices in identification, curriculum, instruction, community support, and program design for gifted learners from low-income households.